Resources
Crisis Resources
Helping Students After a School Shooting
Helping Students in Troubling Times
Social Emotional Learning -School Shootings: How to Talk to Students
https://childmind.org/article/helping-children-cope-frightening-news/
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/when-bad-things-are-happening
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716704917/when-the-news-is-scary-what-to-say-to-kids
Webinar: https://videos.schoolcounselor.org/supporting-students-after-crisis-and-loss
Webinar: https://videos.schoolcounselor.org/effective-crisistrauma-response
Overall crisis/trauma toolkit/resources:
Titles from National Center for Youth Issues:
The Ant Hill Disaster - This book by Julia Cook helps children who have been touched by tragedy, specifically one that happened to their school, find hope and the ability to face another day without fear. This can be used for school shootings, natural disasters, and other traumatizing experiences.Resources after a natural disaster
https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/trauma-types/disasters/tornado-resources
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/teacher-guidelines-helping-students-after-tornado
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/parent-guidelines-helping-children-after-tornado
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/tornado-response-kids-right-after-tornado
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/tornado-response-teens-right-after-tornado
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/tornado-recovery-kids-making-things-better
https://www.nctsn.org/resources/tornado-recovery-teens-making-things-better
For those providing support to impacted school districts, we wanted to bring renewed attention to these resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network in hopes that will be helpful.
https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/trauma-types/disasters/earthquake-resources
Talking to students about Ukraine
Thank you to Laura, Social-Emotional Workshop, for helping complying this list
Talking About Ukraine with Our Children - Dr. Aliza Pressman
How to Talk To Kids About Ukraine - NYTimes/Melinda Wenner Moyer
Students are on TikTok Talking About Ukraine—How Teachers Can Answer Their Questions - We AreTeachers
How to Talk to Kids About Difficult Subjects - Common Sense Media
Helping Students Through Tough Times
*always mindful of Board policies regarding sharing political beliefs when engaging with students.
We Are Teachers Resources for Talking
How to Talk to Children about the Capitol Riots: An Age by Age Guide
Teachers Share How They Talked to Students about the Capitol Riot
Responding to the Insurrection at the US Capitol
NASP Statement on the Assault on the US Capitol
Books:
Re-entry Support
TSCA Virtual Counseling Recommendations
TSCA Re-Entry and Virtual Counseling Recommendations Overview
CASEL: Leveraging the Power of SEL As You Prepare to Reopen and Renew Your School Community
ASCA Virtual School Counseling position statement
4 steps to handling a crisis virtually
Quaver Back To School Transition Plan
Race and Equity Resources:
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Tennessee Specific Resources:
REL Appalachia - supporting grandparents and kinship caregivers as they represent an increasing proportion of guardians of students in our schools. RELAP-Grandfamilies-CoP-Flyer_Acc.pdf
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General Resources
Resources By Grade Level
Lessons/SEL:
https://www.socialthinking.com/eLearning/categories/FreeWebinars
SEL while you watch tv/movies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFeE7OGJGlEM64P7DE2cBSi_YLtnnTJo/view
https://www.sanfordharmony.org/
CASEL Vanderbilt's Guide To Teaching Kids Feelings
Mindfulness:
Behavior:
Career:
What is a career? (Sesame Street video with Judge Sonia Sotomayor)
College For TN Career Town (enter career town and then click a level at the top- Need to run Adobe Player)
Wonderopolis (search job or career)
Health:
Grief:
Divorce:
Helping Your Child Through A Divorce
Divorce Guidelines for Parents
Impact of Divorce on Young Children
Tolerance:
Teaching Tolerance
Lessons/SEL:
SEL while you watch tv/movies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFeE7OGJGlEM64P7DE2cBSi_YLtnnTJo/view
https://www.sanfordharmony.org/
CASEL Vanderbilt's Guide To Teaching Kids Feelings
Discovery Education
Mindfulness:
Teens- http://mindfulnessforteens.com/
Families- https://www.mindful.org/category/health/kids/
School- https://www.mindfulschools.org/- fee involved
Tolerance:
Teaching Tolerance
Movement and De-stressing
K-8- https://family.gonoodle.com/
Teens- https://wanderlust.com/yoga-for-teens/ and https://yogawithadriene.com/free-yoga-videos/
Character Education
Quotes and videos-https://www.passiton.com/
Books, games, and apps-https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/build-character-strengths-with-quality-media
Second Step-paid licensing fee
Overcoming Obstacles-free
Parenting
Social emotional development-https://confidentparentsconfidentkids.org/
For parenting support https://mindbrainparenting.org/why-life-skills, http://www.parenttoolkit.com/ and https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Academic Skills
College and Career Development
TN College and Career Planning
Suicide Prevention
Signs of Suicide-paid subscription
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide
Internet Safety
Parental Controls for Devices, Apps, etc.
Bullying Prevention
Drug and Alcohol Prevention